One in 25 people from India and other South Asian countries carries a mutated gene that causes heart failure, according to a new study. Studying this gene, and the protein it encodes, could lead to new treatments for heart failure, according to Loyola University Health System (LUHS) researcher Sakthivel Sadayappan, who has

The Archaeological Survey of India has stopped work on a new bridge across the Yamuna here as it is very close to a Mughal-era monument.
Superintending archaeologist A.R. Siddiqui said: “We asked the Uttar Pradesh State Bridge Corporation Ltd to stop construction and seek clearance from ASI h

Actress Sandra Bullock had pre-arranged her kiss with Scarlett Johansson at the MTV Movie Awards, says a source.

The last of a group of airmen who were involved in the greatest ever escape bid from a German prison in World War II — immortalised in the Hollywood film Great Escape — is no more.

Around 100 members of the British armed forces are pagans, while another 30 are witches, says a media report.

Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the revolutionary who as Prachanda had led a 10-year war demanding a people’s Constitution in Nepal, skipped a key constitution committee meeting on Monday because he had decided t

If Britain-based historian Nicholas Goodricke-Clarke is to be believed, German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler was “compared to Kalki, the last avatar of Vishnu” by an Indian spiritualist, practitioner of occult

Capillaries have a unique method of ejecting debris, such as blood clots, cholesterol or calcium plaque, that blocks supply of vital nutrients to brain cells. The facts have been revealed by a new study at Northwestern University’s (NU) Feinberg School of Medicine (FSM).

Online social networking site Facebook can also be used to serve legal notices on those evading court hearing, an Australian judge has ruled.

Gunmen attacked the Jinnah hospital Monday night in this eastern Pakistani city, killing at least 12 people, including four policemen, and injuring several others, media reports said.